- U1.A.1The rise of Hitler and the Nazi Party 1919–1933: Treaty of Versailles, Weimar weaknesses, the 1923 Putsch and 1930s breakthrough
- U1.A.2Consolidation of power 1933–34: Reichstag Fire, Enabling Act, Night of the Long Knives
- U1.A.3Nazi rule: terror, propaganda, education, youth movements, role of women, religion
- U1.A.4Persecution and the Holocaust: anti-Semitic policy, ghettoes, Final Solution
- U1.A.5Opposition to the Nazis: church, youth groups (White Rose, Edelweiss Pirates), army (1944 plot)
- U1.B.1NI politics 1965–69: Terence O’Neill’s reforms; civil rights movement; Burntollet, Bogside, deployment of the British army
- U1.B.2Direct rule and the Troubles 1969–1985: internment, Bloody Sunday, hunger strikes; the Anglo-Irish Agreement
- U1.B.3The peace process 1985–98: Hume–Adams talks, ceasefires, the Downing Street Declaration, the Good Friday Agreement
- U1.B.4The role of the Republic of Ireland, the UK government, paramilitary groups and the USA
- U2.A.1Origins of the Cold War 1945–55: Yalta and Potsdam, the Iron Curtain, Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan
- U2.A.2Crises 1955–1968: Hungary 1956, Berlin Wall 1961, Cuban Missile Crisis 1962, Czechoslovakia 1968
- U2.A.3Détente and the end of the Cold War: 1970s thaw, USSR collapse, fall of the Berlin Wall, German reunification
- U2.B.1Partition of Ireland 1920–22: Government of Ireland Act, Anglo-Irish Treaty, civil war
- U2.B.2Northern Ireland under unionist rule 1921–1939: Stormont, sectarianism and economic difficulties
- U2.B.3WWII: Belfast Blitz, NI’s role in the war, attitude of the Republic
- U3.SK1Skill: identifying a focused historical question relevant to the local area or period